Hack your Home-Based Muay Thai Workouts for Added Accountability

Staying Disciplined with your At-Home Muay Thai Training

(Note: if you haven’t read the first and second post in this At-Home Muay Thai Crash Course series, I’d recommend you do before continuing.)

The problem with training solo is that there’s no one to call you out on your BS.

Let me ask you a question. When you make a promise to yourself, how serious are you about it? In the moment, when you’re vowing to do it, you’re probably pretty damn serious. It’s emotional, and it means something in that moment, but that moment doesn’t last forever. Before you know it, you’re kicking a snowball down the hill (and we all know how that ends).

What you need is a TEAM – a handful of people in your corner that keep you centered and focused on your “why.” These are your cornermen in your life. They’ll support you through thick and thin, help fix your weaknesses, give you confidence in your strengths, and be there to ensure you’re getting the most out of your training.

At-Home Accountability Good Enough for a Pro Fighter

I’m a retired professional fighter. In the middle of my career, when I was hitting my stride, I followed a systemized approach to building my team. How do you do this in your own life? Let me explain the exact method I used.

STEP 1: Assess your Circle

Write down a list of all the people in your life. Your family, friends, coworkers, neighbors, training partners, coaches – everyone.

Which of those people are specifically helping you get closer to achieving your most major fitness and Muay Thai goals? Put a mark next to their name.

Now, cross out anyone that’s doing the opposite – the people that are hindering you and holding you back on completing these specific goals. It doesn’t mean you don’t like them or don’t want them in your life; we’re just trying to find our team, and we need to surround ourselves with people who breathe fire into our ideas.

STEP 2: Pick a Partner

In your circle of trusted team members, is there anyone who you can reach out to ask about becoming your accountability partner as you progress through your at-home training?

An accountability partner should have similar goals to you, though that’s not required. All that’s necessary is that you and your accountability partner look out for one another. Encourage your partner. Support your partner. Call them out on their BS. This isn’t personal, it’s a transactional relationship.  

STEP 3: Create a Death Ground

The master Chinese tactician, Sun Tzu, wrote about creating a “death ground” to draw out of his army their greatest heroism. In battle, he strategized to place his army up against an impassable, natural barrier of some kind – a river, mountain or dense forest. With nowhere to escape, his soldiers were forced to act – “do or die.” Under this pressure, Sun Tzu’s army was imbued with incredible motivation to take swift and relentless action to survive.

Although we won’t be quite as dramatic, we still need to create a death ground of our own – an inescapable pressure that will force out our most powerful actions. This is how we hold ourselves accountable.

In between pain and pleasure, there is motivation to find. I have previously arranged to donate thousands to an “anti-charity” if I failed to reach a target or complete a goal. Engineering some social pressure by telling your plans to friends and family members can be helpful. Commit to some inescapable future self-pain in the event that you cannot fulfill your promise before time is up.

STEP 4: Do It

I can’t stress this enough: do it. Just do it.

This is the “well, duh” part of this method, but if you’re reading this, it’s probably the one thing you haven’t tried yet: just doing it.

Don’t overthink. Don’t even think – that’s not doing it. Just do it. Stand up and go to the place you do it, then do it.

STEP 5: The Fail-Safe Method

I’m making it sound like training Muay Thai at home is an easy step forward: it’s not. To do this alone takes commitment and discipline beyond what you’re used to. I struggled for many years before I “found” my system. I’d hate for you to train solo the way I trained solo, because it was a difficult, trial-and-error process.

If you’re the type of person who really, truly struggles to hold yourself accountable, you might want to reach out for extra support – specifically, a progressive workout program you can do from home.

This is exactly how Fighters Body Academy was created. After years of struggle, I finally nailed my process and I built it into a program that others can follow, too. Now I’ve watched 1000s of members succeed at crushing month after month of follow-along Muay Thai workouts – more than 140 full-length workouts at last count.

Fighters Body is more than just workouts.

It’s a coach (me) – in your inbox, on your screen, in your ear, and on weekly live calls laser-focused on goal-setting and high-performance training and life strategies.

It’s a community of ordinary people facing extraordinary challenges, pushing through resistance, and achieving dramatic weight loss, muscle growth, and technique refinement in as little as 30 days.

Accountability to oneself is the final and biggest obstacle to progressive, at-home training of any kind. The solution is to follow step-by-step directions as you walk a proven path to the results you want.

Cost Must be Outweighed by Reward

I’m talking about the financial cost vs. the real-life reward you receive. It’s important to find a balance that minimizes the cost and maximizes the reward. Let’s look at two examples:

WORKOUT CASE #1

🔴 NO COST VS. LOW (?) REWARD

Don’t let anyone tell you that your fitness costs money. At-home training is one of the cheapest, most rewarding pastimes anyone can have. You can run in the park, bust out burpees at home, shadowbox in the elevator – whatever works! So long as you’re active, and you’re following a regimented, consistent plan, fitness can be absolutely free.

Will you get results, like weight loss, muscle definition and improved technique? Probably – but who knows. That’s the problem with solo training: you really are doing this in a vacuum, totally alone. “Results may vary” is the only thing we can say for sure about your workout plan. But hey, at least you’ve still got money.

WORKOUT CASE #2

🔴 HIGH COST VS. MID-TO-HIGH REWARD

Membership to a Muay Thai gym is, at bare minimum, $100/month. That’s just to get in the door. If you want a personal coach or trainer, be prepared to shell out big bucks. I personally charge $200/hour for a private lesson.

I’m good with training at a gym. I love training with a coach or partner of some kind. What I DON’T like is the price tag. Those monthlies add up, especially if you’re not attending 5x a week and soaking up the mat time. Are you really getting the best bang for your buck this way?

WORKOUT CASE #3

🟢 LOW COST VS. GUARANTEED HIGH REWARD

Join a progressive Muay Thai fitness workout program.

If I could start my career over right now, that’s exactly what I’d do. I’d find an online program with workouts that don’t need any special equipment or previous experience.

I’d find a program with a progressive training calendar built into it (so I wouldn’t have to spend time figuring out what to do every time I wanted to work out).

I’d find a program with LOTS of workouts demonstrating LOTS of technique. I don’t want to learn cardio kickboxing, I want to learn REAL Muay Thai from an actual fighter.

And lastly, I’d find a program with a real, live community. I can’t do this shit alone. I need a team around me – and a coach that’s more than just some guy on a screen. I’ve got to be able to connect with my coach and get specific feedback that’s meant for me.

If you came here to find out how a pro fighter would do it all over again given the chance, let me tell you: I’d join the Fighters Body Academy.

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I created this comprehensive, bodyweight-only program during the pandemic as a way to help others keep sane and stay fit and healthy during the two years that everyone was on lockdown. Since then, the program has doubled in size and seen thousands of members. It turns out that for less than the price of a restaurant lunch, they’re getting better cardio, more muscles, sharper technique, boosted confidence and energy, and looking leaner and fitter than they have in years.

If you’re serious about what you want to achieve, then I’m inviting you to check out the Fighters Body Academy and submit your request for membership today. Before you do, let me take you on a tour.